Vivek Haldar on GitHub Copilot
“Speaking only for myself, I get orders of magnitude more value from [GitHub Copilot] than the $10/month it costs. How? Copilot (often used in conjunction with GPT, and now, Bard) has reduced the activation energy for the small scripty projects I want to undertake from being just slightly over a weekend (which meant they would get abandoned or not even started) to fitting comfortably within a weekend. And that has made a world of difference, at least for me. I suspect the same story will play out across programmers in general, where it will serve to lower the friction and frustration of programming just enough to increase their overall output.”
Speaking only for myself, I get orders of magnitude more value from [GitHub Copilot] than the $10/month it costs. How? Copilot (often used in conjunction with GPT, and now, Bard) has reduced the activation energy for the small scripty projects I want to undertake from being just slightly over a weekend (which meant they would get abandoned or not even started) to fitting comfortably within a weekend. And that has made a world of difference, at least for me. I suspect the same story will play out across programmers in general, where it will serve to lower the friction and frustration of programming just enough to increase their overall output.